Beginning with the Burlington's Pioneer Zephyr of 1934, gleaming Budd-built trains, constructed almost entirely of stainless, helped defi ne the look of the streamlined era to the American public - even on railroads like the Pennsylvania and Norfolk and Western that painted over the stainless with...
The engines and their entire trains were renowned for their colorful, aerodynamic styling by industrial designer Otto Kuhler - who lamented, however, that "I did get disgusted every time an uninitiated person asked me, 'Is that a diesel?'" The Hiawathas seduced Depression-era passengers with ...
Beginning with the Burlington's Pioneer Zephyr of 1934, gleaming Budd-built trains, constructed almost entirely of stainless, helped defi ne the look of the streamlined era to the American public - even on railroads like the Pennsylvania and Norfolk and Western that painted over the stainless with...
When the road was first O pened, the charges for firs ct- lass freig ht per ton were $76 ; second class, $65 ; and by passenger trains, Since the opening of, and under the influence of the competition of, the Mexican Cen tral," these rates have been reduced to an average of ...
Beginning with the Burlington's Pioneer Zephyr of 1934, gleaming Budd-built trains, constructed almost entirely of stainless, helped defi ne the look of the streamlined era to the American public - even on railroads like the Pennsylvania and Norfolk and Western that painted over the stainless with...